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The article discusses the Muelle de San Blas, a sheltered hall and public park located on a quay in the Mexican town of San Blas. The town, known for its fishing industry, has historically been an important trade route and a sacred place for the Indigenous Wixárika people. The Muelle de San Blas was designed by Colectivo C733 and serves as a multifunctional space for ferry passengers, athletic activities, meetings, and dining. While the commercial spaces within the complex remain unoccupied, the project has been embraced by the community and provides a shaded respite from the hot climate. The article highlights the challenges faced in activating the commercial spaces and the ongoing efforts to maintain and engage with the project. Overall, the Muelle de San Blas has been successful in providing public space and improving the quality of life for the local population. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses two public projects in Agua Prieta, a Mexican town on the US border, designed by Fernanda Canales Arquitectura. The first project is a border library located in a linear park along the US-Mexico border. The library's architecture contrasts with the border wall and provides a forum-like space for visitors. The second project is a sports center located south of the border. Both projects aim to counter the impermanence of the town and provide facilities for educational, recreational, and social activities. [Extracted from the article]

DEPARTMENTS BOOK The Japanese House Since 1945, by Naomi Pollock. "FOR JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE, the history of its modernization has also been a history of westernization", explains architect Fumihiko Maki. Architects were keen to test out new concepts, and houses were the perfect medium for experimentation, be it for their own use or that of a willing client. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses a series of interventions in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico by RZERO estudio that have improved public spaces and infrastructure. These interventions include the construction of a new market, a sports complex, and the renovation of public plazas and parks. However, there have been challenges in terms of local engagement and limited impact. The article emphasizes the need for more holistic interventions and continuity between administrations to address infrastructural problems and promote resilient social infrastructure. The text also describes the architectural interventions in the park of El Aguaje, which have revitalized the park and made it more accessible to the community. [Extracted from the article]

When local architect Miguel Mesa del Castillo Clavel was approached by his brother and sister-in-law to build them a family home, he called up his old teaching chum Jaque and suggested that together they design a manifesto for change. DEPARTMENTS "WHEN WE FOUNDED our practice, Office for Political Innovation, we were hoping to prove that architecture could have a direct impact on the political structure of a place like Spain", says the firm's Madridborn, New York - based principal Andrés Jaque. Apart from a concrete undercroft for the camper, the 1,500-square-foot house, perched lightly on pilotis, only partly occupies its 6,500-square-foot lot, which takes the form of a small mound: the architects did not flatten the terrain, in contrast to usual practice, but did use excavated soil to help model an artificial fragment of rambla. [Extracted from the article]

Ingels describes the solution for the tower as a in one, a simple meeting of requirements; the lower buildings, by contrast, represent most of the detailed design work. BUILDING TYPE STUDY 1,029 TALL BUILDINGS DOWNTOWN Vancouver's location on a small peninsula on the Pacific coast comes with all-natural non-negotiable boundaries to urban growth. Vancouver House - a 515-foot, 53-story mixed-use development designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and completed in 2020 (it sold out in 2014) - reinterprets the tower on a podium in response to a uniquely challenging site. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses shift in perspective towards preserving and repurposing buildings instead of demolition due to resource scarcity. Topics include the recognition of resource scarcity, the showcasing of six examples of reused modest buildings, and the collective call to end demolitions as a tool of capitalist violence in the face of the climate crisis.

The article highlights Africa's rapid urban growth, particularly along the coastal stretch between Lagos and Abidjan, set to evolve into a vast urban region. This urbanization spurs socioeconomic development but poses challenges like water scarcity and infrastructure strain, emphasizing the need for improved water management and consistent investment in infrastructure for sustainable urban growth.

BUILDING TYPE STUDY 1,027 CIVIC DESIGN IN 2016, Helsinki produced a city plan designed to prevent urban sprawl. Using the secondary materials, LMA has skillfully detailed the windows and subtly differentiated sections of the building. By slicing vertically through the building's bulk, those on the interior who are near the terraces can see the floors above or In addition to these external incisions into the volume, LMA through the deep floor plates elsewhere, forming double-height interior spaces and creating a sense of openness and visual links between floors. [Extracted from the article]

DEPARTMENTS WALLER CREEK is an urban waterway in Austin, Texas - stretching from Waterloo Park, just beside the Capitol, to Lady Bird Lake - that had for years experienced severe flooding and erosion. A decade ago, construction began on a mile-long flood-diversion tunnel to channel overflow. Michael Van Valken-burgh Associates (MVVA) won with a scheme that would not only restore the damaged ecosystem but reinvent this long-for-saken but central corridor. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the Råängen project in Lund, Sweden, where the cathedral board is leading the development of a new neighborhood to generate discussions about the future of the city and features an enclosed garden called Hage designed by Norwegian architects Brendeland & Kristoffersen.

The article informs that skyscrapers have long been predicted to become obsolete, with concerns surrounding their structural integrity and environmental impact. However the construction of super- and mega-tall buildings continues to thrive, with seven of the world's ten tallest buildings being completed since 2015. Building at great heights results in a significant material cost and environmental impact, with the carbon cost of taller buildings being greater than any potential carbon savings.

According to Clark, the bridge's central pier, in the road median, misses the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel "by a few feet", and the eastern end is constrained by underground utility lines, hence requiring a larger west footprint with an A-framed pier. Named for Robert R. Douglass, the late LMDC board member who led post-9/11 efforts in Manhattan, the new structure replaces SHoP Architects' interim Rector Street footbridge one block north. (Both NYEDC and LMDC are clients of the architects, though the Battery Park City Authority maintains the bridge). [Extracted from the article]

The article presents the discussion on traditional construction skills and a close engagement with local communities informing the socially minded projects of a Mexico City-based practice. Topics include construction workers in Mexico not having access to the best technology having talented artisans; and craft skills of local construction workers being as essential as adjusting to Mexico's diverse climate.

"Building Portland: 150 Years of Outstanding Architecture in Today's Central Portland" is a lively and illuminating guide to the architecture of Portland, Oregon. The book explores the history-rich mile-wide radius around Pioneer Courthouse Square, showcasing a wide range of architectural styles from the past 170 years. The author, Victor Graf, provides informative and sometimes opinionated write-ups of each building, highlighting their original usage, renovations, and public perceptions. The book offers a walking tour, a local history, and a crash course in American architecture, making it a valuable resource for those interested in Portland's architectural heritage. [Extracted from the article]

But today's head-spinning housing costs mostly reflect a growing systemic dysfunction, as prices continue to outstrip both inflation and wage growth. Younger buyers who sought urban options were limited by the land costs and the higher price of infill construction - constraints unaddressed by fiscal policies. [Extracted from the article]

Helsinki's UMP came into force in 2011 with a focus on preventing the city's underground from becoming unplanned and congested, including "space reservations" designated for future underground developments. Urban underground spaces are seen, in cities like London and Sydney, as reaching a level of ungovernable infrastructural congestion that is costly and inefficient, increasingly putting at risk future uses of the underground. The act changed the legal ownership of the deep underground, allowing the development of subterranean urban space 40m beneath private property, and laid the legal foundation for a number of deep underground urban development projects. Far from being a blank slate waiting to be colonised, the underground provides the life that sustains us and needs our public attention, writes Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita Core beliefs BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE T his piece is written from and on the land of the Gadigal people, the original owners of the lands, soils, waters, skies and undergrounds where my learning and sharing takes place. [Extracted from the article]

Reputations César Manrique LUCIA VINTI Digging into and working with Lanzarote's volcanic landscape, Manrique invited inhabitants and tourists alike to reconsider the value of this bleakly beautiful island, writes Alejandro Scarpa 87 F ew people are as deeply linked to the development of an entire region as the Spanish artist César Manrique (1919-1992) is to the Canary Island of Lanzarote. Shortly after Manrique's death - and thanks to his direct involvement - Lanzarote received recognition from UNESCO for the balance between urban development and the environment. Today, Manrique has impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of Lanzarote's inhabitants, and is known to the more than fi fty million people who have visited his works. [Extracted from the article]

50 PRIYANKA SHETH 51 Stepwells of Ahmedabad Ancient underground water-harvesting structures can inform urgent new practices of water provision, writes Tanvi Jain T he metropolis of Ahmedabad in North Gujarat, with a population of 5.5 million, is sustained by an expansive dam-canal infrastructure that diverts water over 200km from a perennial river into the seasonal River Sabarmati. Ahmedabad's urban core covers an area of 450km2 beyond the walled city, engulfing surrounding settlements and their water structures. Water-harvesting structures were built at the scale of the dwelling, the community and the settlement, putting into practice a holistic working knowledge of the terrain, surface water and groundwater. [Extracted from the article]

In an echo of his earlier book summing up the Brutalist phase of postwar architecture, Banham's account reads now like an elegy for failure. REYNER BANHAM's long-unavailable 1976 book has been reprinted, with an incisive new foreword by Banham historian Todd Gannon. Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past, by Reyner Banham; foreword by Todd Gannon. [Extracted from the article]

This ethics of care acknowledges what Butler describes as "grievability"; to be "grievable" is to be interpolated in such a way that you know your life matters, that the loss of your life would matter and that your body is treated as one that should be able to live and thrive. Adopting that ethics of care undoubtedly requires a projective and refl ective approach to dismantling systems of oppression and violence, in ways that demerit violence as permissible. This ethics of care acknowledges what Butler describes as "grievability"; to be "grievable" is to be interpolated in such a way that you know your life matters, that the loss of your life would matter and that your body is treated as one that should be able to live and thrive. 43 I n "Black Vernacular: Architecture as Cultural Practice", bell hooks remembers a task she was given as a teenager at school, to design the house of her dreams. [Extracted from the article]

Sao Paulo boasts nearly 49,000 streets, but one of them stands out: Avenida Paulista operates as both an agora and an acropolis for the 21.6 million inhabitants of Brazil's economic capital. The old centre had begun to build upwards in the '20s and then legislation micl-century left few impediments to the construction of tall buildings on the avenue. For almost two decades, the FIESP building's ground level was barred and accessible only to institution managers and employees, a common condition among Avenida Paulista's buildings from this era. [Extracted from the article]

A biography of American-Canadian journalist, author, activist and urban theorist Jane Jacobs is presented. She was born on May 4, 1916 and the author of the 1961 book, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," which shook up urban-development thinking. She organized grassroots efforts to protect her Greenwich Village neighborhood in New York City as well as incorporated environmentally sustainable principles at her home in Toronto, Ontario. She died on April 26, 2006 in Toronto.

This article reports that twenty-five miles northwest of skyscraper-congested downtown, Shanghai's suburban district of Qingpu is like the often-ignored older cousin of the metropolis's more glamorous and wealthier districts. Qingpu is more famous for its natural waterways, which have been used as a mode of transportation for centuries. But city planners and architects are moving beyond developing China's population-heavy metropolises and looking outward as development enters a new phase, driven by the country's economic boom. Qingpu differs from the run-of-the-mill Chinese suburb, which usually consists of shoddy buildings with white-tile exteriors and utilitarian cement homes, thanks to its natural beauty, its proximity to the heart of China's wealthiest city, and its vice district chief, Jiwei Sun. INSET: A CONVERSATION WITH JIWEI SUN.

This article reports that artists often pioneer urban development, moving into neighborhoods seen by others as risky or rough. At the Heyri Art Valley, about an hour's drive north of Seoul, a group of artists, gallery owners, and culture mavens are taking this tropism beyond the local sphere of good block/bad block and are pushing the stakes up to a harder kind of boundary — the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone separating North from South Korea. Begun in 2000 as a land cooperative with about 370 members, the Heyri Art Valley is a planned community where people can live, and create, display, and sell art. More than 70 shareholders have already built houses, galleries, or cafés, often combining all three in one building.

Strangling traffic notwithstanding, cars are still the preferred mode of transportation, especially in the U.S., for many commuters who take public transit from the suburbs into the city, an automobile is required to deliver them to the bus or rail station. Besides the rising cost of gasoline, traffic congestion is a huge drain on both productivity and energy conservation. And yet, innovative technology is emerging that promises to make surface transport on roadways and railways more energy-efficient. The architecture of shelters and stations, which supports rail and road transit, is just starting to feed off the high-technology momentum that seems to be driving the current surge in advanced applications.

By the early 1970s, the collective population of suburbs equaled that of cities. Robert Fishman had recognized that American suburbs have made them into something quite different from what it had promised to be over the preceding 200 years. "Suburbness," in Fishman's formulation, meant a place that depended on the central city, as did the commuter-filled bedroom communities in the 1950s and the railroad and street-car suburbs that preceded them as far back as the 1880s. Silicon Valley, in California, the pharmaceutical belt in northern New Jersey, and the bistate suburbs of Washington, D.C., have built economies comparable to entire nations.

The article focuses on Councillor Retief Odendaal's address to the wool growers of South Africa, highlighting the tremendous promise of Nelson Mandela Bay and the Eastern Cape, urging commodity organizations like the NWGA to apply pressure on provincial departments.

As more data throughputis required, better antennas may beneeded--consider multiple antennas orMIMO antennas to optimize data speed. Technology Report GLO:5z3/01apr21:26n1.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): . gl What are the key considerations and solutions forEEs involved in designing outdoor surveillance systemsand other IoT devices for smart cities? USB Type-C connectors and high-speedboard-to-board connectors can offer reliablesignal integrity and excellent signalspeed, transferring data at up to 10-Gb/sdata speeds and beyond. [Extracted from the article]

WILL THE APPEAL of skyscrapers endure, even as pundits again predict the end of the office version - thanks to remote work? New York experienced this in the early 20th century, when explosive growth and transformation led to such early skyscrapers as the Woolworth tower and Metropolitan Life building. Supertall skyscrapers are expensive, financially risky, and can take a decade or more to finance and build. [Extracted from the article]

Estela Granada, 68, has been livingin Nueva Santa Fe since 1994.She enthusiastically describes itsconvenient location close to thecity centre, the abundant nature colouring itscourtyards, and the well thought-out design. Although Nueva Santa Fe was plannednearly 40 years after the Bogotázo andLe Corbusier's Plan Piloto for Bogotá,Salmona heeded his Rue de Sevres trainingand determined to replace historic remainswith a new, efficient building. Inspired by Le Corbusier'sPlan Piloto for Bogotá,Salmona ensured NuevaSanta Fe featured openingsfor residents to enjoy viewsof the city 's colonial domesand the hills beyond. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents a global market outlook for airports in 2008. Airports will face a number of challenges in the coming year, including new environmental requirements and rising capital expenditures. There is also a trend towards aerotropolis, which refers to city airports that transformed to airport cities as a result of airport-driven employment and economic growth. Sustainability will also remain a crucial issue for airports.

The article focuses on the urban development in Makkah, Saudi Arabia with the influx of pilgrims is now constant and capitalising on year-round religious tourism has become a way of diversifying the Saudi economy. It mentions Grand Mosque which is social and spatial configurations are unfolding beyond its prescribed physical boundaries. It also mentions disparities of extreme wealth and poverty and pressures on land use and a dramatic increase in land value.

The article focuses on development of Msheireb Downtown Doha in Qatar is intended to recreate the cultural roots of the district while accepting the march of time. It mentions original masterplan and the urban developments in Doha that exemplify the polarities of architectural and placemaking. It also mentions urban morphology are generated specifically by local historical vernaculars and spatial precedents with architecture and planning.

This article focuses on the architectural development of Cairo, Egypt. As far as cities go, Cairo is an urban enfant terrible. Unruly and continually expanding, its dense mass defies any attempts at homogenization. It is a rebel's delight and a planner's challenge. Even in the city's quiet residential areas, parked cars jostle for space on tree-lined streets, detracting from the old-world feel of turn-of-the century architecture. Yet urban free-spiritedness makes Cairo livable, turning an immense monument to density into a multitude of personalized spaces, neither Belle Epoque nor cutting-edge, but remarkably human. Instead, recently constructed motorways, linking the city center to new suburbs, have ripped through Cairo's innards, exposing an expanse of boxy, unfinished-brick buildings engulfing the countryside at horrific speed.

Features the architectural front of Colorium building in Dusseldorf, Germany. Revitalization of the industrial riverfront; Physical description; Contributions to urban development.

With drought-stricken regions in the western United States growing at a rapid pace, administrators in cities throughout the West are working hard to craft policies that reduce their water consumption. Most recently, the Phoenix City Council unanimously passed a new water conservation policy earlier this month that, among other things, regulates non-functional turf, outdoor irrigation and swimming pools, prioritizes navite flona, and better regulates large water users. [Extracted from the article]

Investing in modern heat and hot water infrastructure doesn't just reduce energy costs, it also saves money by cutting down on outages. New York City's Housing Authority (NYCHA) has reduced its heat and hot water outages by nearly 10% compared to the previous heating season. [Extracted from the article]

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As communities across the United States face an ongoing housing crisis, thoughtful land use policies make sense. This will be no small challenge, given the various policy reforms that need to be enacted to overcome the many barriers to more efficient land use", the report says. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports that Flash forward 31 years, and his son, Bryan, who wasn't alive at the time of Don Schneider was featured on the January 1991 the interview, is cinching that same belt, 8I issue of Southwest Farm Press. He talked then about tightening the farm's economic belt. Today, not because of last year's drought, but his son Bryan, is tightening that belt once again. because of the current one, along with , inflated fuel and production costs and rising land values .

Given the reliance on vehicular transportation in the United States, some American cities historically haven't prioritized being walkable in past planning and or design. Each metro was ranked on its percentage of real estate inventory, square footage, and walkable urban development status using data about office space, multi-family rentals, and for sale properties. [Extracted from the article]

Notably, the transportation sector is the largest greenhouse gas emitter in the United States, accounting for one-third of all emissions. The federal government aims to cut all greenhouse emissions from America's transportation system by 2050. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses New York-based firm Sidewalk Labs and its plans to create Sidewalk Toronto a mixed-use development for a 12-acre parcel in waterfront district Quayside, east of downtown Toronto, Ontario. The plan would incorporate technological innovations, advanced construction techniques, and new financing strategies for the existing brownfield site. The plan has generated public controversy regarding issues including transparency, data gathering, and lack of public transportation.

E-scooters and electric bikes have quickly emerged in cities across the United States as an important means of mobility for constituents commuting to work and tourists exploring the downtown area. Prior to the study, research on the impact of micro mobility (e-scooters and e-bikes) had been mostly theoretical, relying small data sets and with mixed findings. [Extracted from the article]

The article talks about the increasing number of pressing plants in Tennessee making the state the U.S. vinyl hub. Topics include the continuing expansion of the United Record Pressing (URP) plant in Nashville, the amount of revenue generated by the vinyl pressing market through June 2022 according to the Mid-Year 2022 Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Music Revenue Report, and the plan of GZ Media-owned MRP to add 36 new presses in the state to be operational by early 2023.

While a formal assessment and analysis may be expensive, moving forward with an adaptive reuse project without adequately assessing the building can lead to excessive hidden costs during construction. Every community has its share of underutilized buildings - empty warehouses, shuttered schools, abandoned grocery stores and retail strip malls, and aging postal facilities - that have reached the end of their useful lives. Municipal and law enforcement budgets often receive a lot of scrutiny, and reduced construction costs can be returned to municipal coffers to pay for additional staff, training, or community programs. [Extracted from the article]